▲ | EGreg 18 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
If I were hiring engineers for a big company, I’d simply ask to see the interviewees’ chat transcripts with ChatGPT or Claude from the past 6 months. I can learn so much from that, for how they go about actual modern coding. If I see them arguing with the LLM and nudging it to fix cases, I can see how they’d actually have to code, and the more nuanced their fixes the better. I can spot their attention to detail, how they think thru architecture and software design, the works. If they just take the code given and accept it, that’s a red flag. If word gets out about how we interview, I’d simply ask for even older chats. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | danaris 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
...So anyone who coded on their own, you'd just reject out of hand? And (granting, for the moment, your premise that everyone worth hiring used the LLMs) how do you know what they do with the code after they take it from the chat window? My limited experience with the code from LLMs is that there's only so much massaging it's worth giving it through the chat interface, and then you need to just take it and edit it by hand. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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